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Dr. Chalmers and other eminent divines, some of whom, 

 such as Dean Stanley, the Rev. J. G. Wood, the Eev. F. 0. 

 Morris, and the Rev. Prebendary Jackson, have also pub- 

 lished interesting works well calculated to produce such a 

 feeling, or state of public sentiment. But the clergy as a 

 whole do not realise or if they do, certainly do not perform 

 duties that would come so appropriately from clergymen, by 

 the delivery of discourses that would be so suitable to the 

 pulpit. Their failings in this respect have been most properly 

 and most temperately pointed out by Sir James Coxe and 

 other competent critics of the present dogmatic and pole- 

 mical, non-convincing and non-converting,. character of our 

 church oratory. 



There is still a most promising field for the exertions, 

 there is much room for an extension of the operations, of all 

 kinds of Societies for the prevention of cruelty to animals ; 

 much remains to be done by them, in some of the ways already 

 pointed out, in the dissemination, in all our great centres of 

 civilisation, of a knowledge of animal character, capacities, 

 habits, and requirements. What has already been done in 

 this and other ways in the diffusion of information of a 

 desirable kind, and what may still further be accomplished, 

 may be found pointed out in the interesting pages of the 

 6 Animal World.' 



It is much to be desired that the branches of such a 

 society as the London ' Royal Society for the Prevention of 

 Cruelty to Animals' should be spread all over the three 

 kingdoms, as well as throughout our colonies ; or that some 

 equivalent societies, similar in their aims and operations, 

 should be established in lieu of such multiplication of 

 branches. Remembering, however, that union is strength, 

 and the advantages of co-operation, more is perhaps to be 

 expected from the extended and extensive operations of a 

 single influential society with widely-spread local branches, 

 than from a host of minor societies having different names, 

 objects, and interests. 



